"We may talk of the best means of doing good; but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spi…"

"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"

"Democracy is clearly most appropriate for countries which enjoy an economic surplus and least appropriate for countri…"

"Here, for the last time together, appeared a triumvirate of old men, relics of a golden age, who still towered like g…"

"We movie people should not be afraid of what people will say of our work. We should not allow a word or a theory to d…"

"You can't use imitation silk before the motion picture camera. The lens is even quicker to detect imitation emotion."

"Horace said: "He who would make others weep, must first have wept himself." Every motion picture director should have…"

"Ever since I was six years old people have been prophesying that I was going to kill myself with overwork. All the pr…"

"We could make some very fine motion pictures if we didn't have to bother with cameras and lights."

"The censors are going to stop crime by censoring the films. Why don't they put an end to diseases by burning the medi…"